FIRESTORM

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Battle rages against Chile forest fires one week in
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
More than 5,600 local firefighters, with backup from personnel flown in from Mexico, Colombia and Spain, were actively battling 89 priority fires out of a total...
New areas under threat as Chile fires rage and mercury rises
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
Some 5,600 firefighters, the majority of them volunteers, are actively battling 81 priority blazes out of 301 still burning, according to authorities. As intern...
Chileans who survived deadly forest fire fear flames will return
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
The 55-year-old social worker in the town of Santa Juana in the hard-hit Bobio farming region said many houses in the area were reduced to ashes. "It is a mirac...
International help arrives for fire-hit Chile; Makeshift clinic works to save pets
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
Officials said the blazes in south-central Chile, some 280 of which were still burning Monday, have consumed about 270,000 hectares (667,000 acres) of land -- a...
Chile forest fire toll rises, hundreds left homeless
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
Fueled by strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), hundreds of fires have razed some 270,000 hectares in a region about 500 ...
Death toll in Chile forest fires rises to 23: official
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
"We want to mourn the passing of 23 persons," said Deputy Interior Minister Manuel Monsalve, adding that 979 people have been injured in the fires. Monsalve sai...
What's driving re-burns across California and the West
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
"Rapid climate change is the force behind these re-burns, which are increasing across the West at roughly the same rate as single-burn fires," said Kurt Solande...
Five dead in China chemical plant explosion
Jan 16, 2023 (AFP)
The blast happened on Sunday afternoon at a factory in northeastern Liaoning province's Panshan County, according to state broadcaster CCTV, which reported the ...
Brazil sees area burned by fire nearly double in November
Dec 15, 2022 (AFP)
That is an area about three-quarters of the size of the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus. More than 80 percent of the burned land is located in the Amazon rainfo...
Europe's record 2022 wildfires sent carbon emissions soaring: monitors
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe's recorded history. The continent suffered blistering heatwaves and the worst drought in centuries, as climate chan...
Ten dead, nine injured in fire in China's Xinjiang: state media
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze broke out in a high-rise building on Thursday night, state news agency Xinhua said, at about 7:50 pm (1150 GMT). "Ten people died despite emergency tr...
Algeria sentences scores to death over forest fire lynching: media
Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)
The North African country has, however, maintained a moratorium on carrying out death sentences since the last executions in 1993. Onlookers had beaten 38-year-...
38 killed in central China fire
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
The fire broke out at a plant in Anyang city in Henan province on Monday afternoon, news agency Xinhua reported. Rescue services first received reports of a fir...
Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of C02: study
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
Researchers fear a threshold might soon be crossed, beyond which small changes in temperature could lead to an exponential increase in area burned in that regio...
Multiple fires ravage Mount Kilimanjaro
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
The fire started on October 21 near the Karanga site used by climbers ascending Africa's highest peak, at about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) altitude on its south...
Tanzania deploys army to battle Mount Kilimanjaro fire
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
The fire started on October 21 near the Karanga site used by climbers ascending the famous peak, at about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) altitude on its south side....
Fire on Mount Kilimanjaro reignites
Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze began on Friday evening near the Karanga site used by climbers ascending the famous peak, at about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) altitude on its south si...
Tanzanian firefighters battle blaze on Mount Kilimanjaro
Oct 22, 2022 (AFP)
The fire was burning near the camp Karanga site used by climbers ascending the mountain, at about 4,000 metres altitude on the south side of mountain. Mount Kil...
Easter Island blaze chars famous moai statues
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
"Nearly 60 hectares (148 acres) were affected, including some moai," Carolina Perez, cultural heritage undersecretary, said in a Twitter post. On Easter Island,...
Fire in northeast China restaurant leaves 17 dead
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze broke out at 12:40 pm (0440 GMT) in an eatery in the city of Changchun, the local government said in a statement posted on the Weibo social media plat...
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